LOL @GOT duo leaving SW for fear of the interweb meanies’ impending harassments… I just can’t LOOOL
When 10yo sweet little suburban girls and devotees of youtuber Miranda Sings are sending "death threats” by the hundreds to the her exhusband on a daily basis, I’m sure the GOT duo can handle a handful of SW loons keyboard trolling them. They sure have enough experience dealing with critcisms with their insulting Season 8 mess.
No doubt they’re going where the money is. I’d do the exact same if I were them.
Exactly, it's either money or artistic disagreement. One of the two. But I def. agree, my man...the ONE positive they brought was the prospect of R-rated SW. Now I think that may have BEEN the artistic disagreement. Disney was like "Nope, too hardcore," and perhaps they're like "Alright, we're out then." Now I don't think they'd go GOT levels of dark, but you get my meaning. See the thing is, comics have shown that attempting more mature content can be IMMENSELY successful. Society is what apparently has an issue with that. Apparently comics are "kids stuff," well...are they really? REALLY? Some of it is and has been, absolutely, but it's not inherently. And that's just it, neither is SW. I always HATED the argument that SW is simply children content. Since when? Did we WATCH the same movies? So I'm with you to the end of the line, bro. I'd love to see a FLAT OUT ***** to the wall R-Rated SW. Yes it'll be risky, yes it'll receive as much controversy as say the new Joker movie did, but is it a BAD idea? No. It's just a different step.
But no denying, no matter how good it started and terrible it got, the show always LOOKED beautiful. I mean season 8 goes to show that these two are visual people, not writers, because honestly? It may have my favorite SHOTS of the series, but at the very same time it's the WORST episodes as far as story. I particularly love the Dany with dragon wings framing and my absolute favorite? The Mountain looming down on the Hound on the stairs of the Red Keep, crumbling, and the side of the wall collapsed and you see the dragon fly by and spew fire as brothers finally collide. It also may be my favorite though because Cleganebowl was the one thing that I felt DID make sense and how I DID imagine it ending. It felt true to the characters. The Mountain at this point has a very Frankenstein meets Vader meets Lord of the Rings feel and I just adore all those things. The guy is just SO freaking intimidating. Plus there's the added aspect of the fact that the actor really IS the worlds strongest man. Plus the Hound is either my favorite or second favorite character on the show. It's one of the only scenes in Season 8 that I actually really liked and felt sincerely accurate to the character portrayals. It would only end this way. I'm with you on the armors, my personal favorite designs are the early golden Kings Guard Jaime Lannister armor and the Hounds intro armor and helmet. If they could have brought in the same concept artists who worked on Thrones for their hypothetical SW, the costume design would blown the ST costumes out of the water. When you really look at the costume for Poe, Finn, even Rey....they're rather bland. Even Kylo, who is perhaps the most visually interesting costume, is still rather redundant. I get thematically he's intending to be like Vader, but still.
So an extremely vocal section of star wars fans are constantly harassing,trolling, and sending death threats and you don't think it makes sense for directors,etc to not want to deal with that,especially when they can make way more money on netflix?
Well...first and foremost...I don't think any extremely vocal fans are constantly sending DEATH threats. Why? Because if that were true, we'd hear an awful lot more about it. Not only that, but we'd SEE it here on this very board. I can't say I've ever seen that firsthand. You're statement is absurdly hyperbole. Now sure, there are some rather venomous fans out there...but...since when is this new? Every fandom has a lunatic fringe and what you've failed to state is that although they are vocal, they're also a massive minority. Secondly, harassment is a relative term. If you consider harassment to be critiquing art or film or writing or acting that was put out and displayed to the general populace to be reviewed...then I'm afraid you and I define harassment as very different things. That is the VAST majority of what I see. What I RARELY see is SINCERE harassment from fans who criticize GOT or SW. Not saying it doesn't happen, but I am saying you're once again highly exaggerating. Then lastly, trolling? You're complaining about trolling? Complaining there's trolling in a fandom on the internet is like complaining there's oxygen in the atmosphere. Chill out...